TRANSFORMATIVE STUDIES

Graduate Dissertation Titles

Graduate Dissertation Titles

2010


    Mary Meeker Alber
    IMAP: Integral Self-Awareness Mapping Process: A Study to Evolve a Method for Consciousness Development

    Maria F. Albergato
    Transforming the Perception/Experience of Body Image in Women Traumatized by Breast Cancer

    Carmen Arth
    Mapping the Footprints of Spirit: An Intuitively Adaptive Narrative Inquiry

    Eric Berkowitz
    Theater as a Tool for Transformation: Identifying the Aspects of a High School Collaborative Theater Process That Encourage Self-Development

    Bryon Dan Crowe
    I Ain't Fattening Frogs for Snakes: An Inquiry Into the Application of Creativity Research to Teach Practice

    Maryanne A. Fazio-Fox
    The IMAGINE model: A Web-Based Transdisciplinary Curricular Model to Build Learner Capacities That Encourage a Culture of Peace

    Ruth M. Lamb
    Healing as Yoga Sadhana: A Subtle Energy Approach to Addiction Treatment

    Doreen Maller
    Juvenile Offenders to Reformed Women: A Narrative Analysis of Transformative Change

    Terri L. Reasoner
    Using Participation in an Online Community to Support Living and Coping with Chronic Disease: A Narrative Inquiry

    Harold Reich
    A Qualitative Study of Heart-Mind Coherence Techniques for Stress Relief and Mental and Emotional Self-Management

    Surinder Gill Saeltzer
    My Sikh Mother and I: The Way We Are in America

    Rachel Elizabeth Seiler
    Potent Crossroads: An Inquiry at the Intersection of U2's Music and the Progressive Awareness of Their Listener's

    Thomas Milton Shaw III
    Reclaiming and Reconstructing Our Lady of Guadalupe: A Symbol of Transformation and Empowerment for Latina/Chicana Lesbians

    Rona K. Zollinger
    A Case Study of Transformative Education in Action: Partnership Education for Stability

2009


    Peter Avanti
    Modernity Legato: Black, White, and Blues

    Fatima Bustos-Choy
    Narratives on the Impact of Colonialism on the Lives of Modern-Day Filipino American Women in the Workplace

    Craig Elliott
    Raising Change: Fathering as a Feminist Experience

    Shahara Lauren Etta Godfrey
    Bearing Witness: An Organic Inquiry Into What Reveals Itself to Seven African American Women Visual Artists Who Gather to Talk Story Through Art

    Marjory L. Hamann
    Seeing What Is: An Organic Inquiry into the Experience of Living Mindfully with White Privilege

    Mary Beth Gajewski Moze
    A Theory of Surrender: Understanding Psychological Surrender with Comparison to Ego Defense

    Paige L.Parker
    A Critical Theory of African American Potentiality

    Glenn Aparicio Parry
    SEED Graduate Institute: An Original Model of Transdisciplinary Education Informed by Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Dialogue

    Pamelaia Sanders
    The Resurgence of the Soul's Inner Wellspring of Knowledge: Remembering, Reclaiming, and Embracing Cultural and Spiritual Wisdom

    Donna Stoneham
    Changing Practices, Transforming Paradigms: An Appreciative Approach to Developing Integral Leaders

    Wong, Cathy L.
    Filling The Void: An Autoethnographic Study of a Transracial Adoptee

    Elizabeth M. Koffman
    An Organic Inquiry into Intentional Motherhood Through Pregnancy and Childbirth: Stories from Lesbian Mothers

    Debra Mater
    Exploring Aspects of a Forgotten Knowledge: A First-Hand, Experiential Investigation Into Trans- Rational Knowing

    William Morris
    Chinese Pulse Diagnosis: Epistemology, Practice and Tradition

    Constance Scharff
    Filling the God-Shaped Hole: Reframing Alcoholism as an Opportunity or Spiritual Transformation

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2008


    Kathleen Brown
    Writing Our Way Home: A Life History Study of African American Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century Who Grew to Adulthood Enslaved

    Lily Fessenden
    On the Way to Interbeing: A Cooperative Inquiry

    Portia Naomi Hopkins
    Reconstructing the Reader: Towards a Theory of Engaged Reading

    Tony Kashani
    Cinema for Transformation: Towards a Pedagogy of Social Change

    Kathy A. Kelly
    Rekindling Indigenous Minds: An Ethnoautobiographical Inquiry of Transformation

    Karyn Lazarus
    Integral Community: The Experience of Soul in Everyday

    Dane Gregory Reese
    Authentic Education: Applying Principles from Authentic Movement to Educational Theory and Practice

    Susan Ross
    The Integration of Transformation: A Cooperative Inquiry Among Women After Transformative Travel

    Kathleen A. Shanel
    Stories of Being Heard- An Organic Inquiry Exploration Into a Transpersonal, Transformative Experience

    Taj Toni Johns
    We Are Self Affirming Soul Healing Africans

    Suzanne M. Pereira
    Case Study of Women in Recovery: A Transformative Journey of Recovery from Alcohol and Other Drug Dependencies

2007


    Jeanine M. Canty
    Ecological Healing: Shifting from a Scarcity Consciousness

    Christine Carter
    What is the Experience of Leaders Who Transcend Organizational Paradox? A Phenomenological Inquiry

    Betty Anne Frey
    Discerning Life with Dreams: The Triadic Relationship Between Dreams, Discernment, and Spiritual Intelligence

    Folarinde Christiana Harrison
    What Can I, A Ghanian Woman, Tell About Survival and Flourishing in America When I Hear the Stories of My Peers Through Kronkrontsee (Spiritual Listening)?

    Diane Marie Horton
    How Can the Dreamer be Reconciled with Everyday Reality?

    Melissa Jones
    Mid-Career Corporate Women in Dialogue: What it Means to be in Effective Control of Career Development and Management Efforts

    Gabrielle Pelicci
    Portraits of Her: A Narrative Analysis of the Life Stories of Five Women Healers

    Helen Roads
    A Spirituality Informed Intervention to Address Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Holistically

    Joanna Zweig
    Group Coherence: A Cooperative Inquiry

2006


    Anne Adams
    Education: From Conception to Graduation-A Systemic, Integral Approach

    Lorna Beretta
    A Practical Example of Action Research: A Case Study

    Lori Clinchard-Sepeda
    Through Her Eyes: A Case Study of Women's Experience of Pregnancy and Childbirth with Out-of-Hospital Midwifery Care

    Sister Guadalupe Guajardo
    Leadership at the Margins of Society: Practices in a Shifting Paradigm

    Lisa Herzig
    The Meaning(s) of a Menopausal Woman's Voice

    Gregorio Rivera
    An Evolutionary Learning Community: How Artscience Emerges through Evolutionary Systems Design

    Matthew J. Taylor
    Re-membering Backpain: Discovering the Gaps in our Self-Care through a Participatory Back School

    Dominica Lord-Wood
    Creating Expression among Women

    Charles L. Trull
    Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Effects of Long-Term Practice of Ceremonial Sexuality

    Daisy Nelson White
    Every Body is a Star: Creating Family Cosmology

    Martha Brumbaugh Jacobsen
    Out of the Mists: An Organic Inquiry into Sacred Ways of Knowing and the Shaping of Reality

    Angela Gayle Cherry
    Teaching from the Inside Out: Teaching Practices and Lived Experiences of African American Women Teachers Who Taught in the Segregated South